frognumber

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by frognumber 2y ago
It's an upgrade mostly because putting on a headset to talk to an assistant means it's not worth using the assistant.
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by frognumber 2y ago
I don't fully understand the cloud upsell. I have a beefy GPU. I would like to run the "more advanced" models locally. By "I don't fully understand," I mean just that. There's a lot of marketing copy, but
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by frognumber 2y ago
I think one issue is this highlights is how despicable all these individuals are. The way I read this: Elon Musk wanted OpenAI to commit fraud. They refused. He went away. They decided to commit the same fraud. He sued. They're a stron
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by frognumber 2y ago
That's most of it, but there's also MAP. A lot of products Microcenter cells have minimum advertised pricing. That means brick-and-mortar can compete with online and make decent margins. If Amazon / Walmart sells something fo
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by frognumber 2y ago
> None of those are geographically distributed physical locations that need to be staffed and operated constantly. They're monolithic institutions, pop-up restaurants of learning, or virtual. I think you're misunderstanding how
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by frognumber 2y ago
> At my store and every single store I was aware of, if they had not pivoted to cellphones they would have gone out of business in 2000. Let's shorten this: "if they had not pivoted, they would have gone out of business in 2000
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by frognumber 2y ago
That's exactly my point. Many of those bookstores survived. The ones that died were the ones who tried to lower prices to compete with online, had commercial books selling shelf space (rather than curated selections), and minimum-wage
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by frognumber 2y ago
Personally, I think this is a dead-end business decision. I've seen this gamebook play out over and over. It rarely ends well. The problem is that in 2024, kids can play video games and watch stupid videos in the comfort of their own h
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by frognumber 2y ago
The rule is simple. Google is fine for anything not in the critical path. Need something to spread on social media? Fine. Post on Twitter, Facebook, Google, go nuts. Never use Google (or other sketchy vendors) for anything you need to rely
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by frognumber 2y ago
<--- This. And specifically: > Google's records retention policies were also over the top and perhaps hurt it: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/technology/google-antitru ...: If you're i
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by frognumber 2y ago
Why? Genuine question. To me, it doesn't feel extreme at all, relative to former antitrust regulations or to what's needed for a functioning market. I would have felt bad about these about two decades ago, but Google has not been
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by frognumber 2y ago
As a configurable feature, this would be a killer option. Personally, I'd love an 8k which could act as two 4k in the middle, and two vertical 1920x4320 sides. I use vertical monitors for documents, documentation, and word-processing.
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by frognumber 2y ago
This shouldn't be a downvote or flag. It's a serious problem, especially at elite institutions, and especially at MIT and Stanford. It's also not out-of-line with what credible sources observe: https://blogs.bmj.co
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by frognumber 2y ago
I feel like this is a problem without a solution, or at least without a solution more expensive than the problem: * I suspect that, like prohibition or DMCA, criminalizing behavior will lead to worse outcomes than accepting deepfake porn so
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by frognumber 2y ago
Okay. You're right about what I wrote. Let me rephrase what I meant. I was missing the words "the widespread adoption of" Athens had a democracy over 2500 years ago. A few Native American tribes had long-lasting democracies.
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by frognumber 2y ago
I can explain it. I'd like my critical supply chains to be in North America. Ideally, I'd have a free trade zone with Mexico and Canada. Tariffs, two-sided, reduce trade, and bring me closer to that reality. I'm okay paying s
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by frognumber 2y ago
There are a series of challenges like: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/09/09/technology/ai... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/19/technology&#
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by frognumber 2y ago
This is misleading or wrong. In general, the weakest part of a steel weld is the heat-affected zone. Not the rest of the base metal. Not the weld. The heat-affected zone is caused by the weld. Ergo, welds to weaken the base metal. In most c
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by frognumber 2y ago
* Regulation is non-existent in the cruise industry. You shop for the venue with the most lax regulations of the ≈200 countries in the world. * The equivalent is insurance. Insuring a $2B ship carries pretty good due diligence. A ship simpl
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by frognumber 2y ago
(I also agree with most things, and don't reply to those parts) > In the real world a lot of work was done to minimize that over x86’s lifetime. In the early days RISC did do a lot of what was promised, but clever (some would say h
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by frognumber 2y ago
How about this: NVidia's focused R&D efforts to improve Intel platforms. The Intel platforms are still very, very good, and very, very hard to replicate. It took many decades of concerted optimization to get here. AMD is a little b
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by frognumber 2y ago
I have no idea about the future progression of AI, and anyone who claims they do is either lying to you or to themselves. I'll also mention: - ChatGPT was a lot smarter for the types of things I'd like to use it for before the &qu
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by frognumber 2y ago
It didn't go very wrong for the purchasing party -- AOL: * AOL was very, very overvalued. * They bought a company with real worth. * When the .com bubble popped, they were left with Time Warner. It'd be a dead company without it.
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by frognumber 2y ago
That looks very nice. The $1800 version is exactly what I'd love to have as an extra monitor on my main computer, if not for the price tag. 3200x1800. 25.3". It looks really good. Unfortunately, as is, it's a little outside o
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by frognumber 2y ago
I've only bought from them rarely, a long long time ago, but I was impressed. If money is no object -- or developer time is expensive -- or failure is expensive -- it'd be my go to source. For what I'm doing now (education),
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by frognumber 2y ago
FYI: I'd pay to cover costs if there was a just-works off-the-shelf version of this. I don't think there's a business model there (I suspect the sales would be in the thousands or tens of thousands of dollars -- so no matter
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by frognumber 2y ago
Remember when AOL bought Time Warner?
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by frognumber 2y ago
It's not debt. You issue 24B in stock, and use that to pay for Intel. If investors think it's a good idea, market cap goes up by more than 24B. If not, by less. I am looking for honest thoughts. I have not been spending any time o
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by frognumber 2y ago
It's unclear to me if that would help them expand and grow or if it'd be deadweight and overhead. FWIW, I was pointing out aspects of such an acquisition, and looking for honest thoughts. I have no idea if it's a good idea or
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by frognumber 2y ago
Intel market cap: 91B NVidia market cap: 2.64T Antitrust issues aside, NVidia could acquire Intel for about 1/30th of their stock. That would result in having an end-to-end platform play like AMD/ATI, about 5x the number of employ

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